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Dr. Thomas Reid is Chief, Hematology-Medical Oncology and Oncology Director at MedStar Good Samaritan and MedStar Union Memorial Hospitals in Baltimore, MD. He earned his BS in Microbiology at Penn State (1976) and his PhD in Biochemistry at Purdue (1981). He earned his MD at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda, MD (1985). He completed his internship (1986) and residency (1988) in Internal Medicine and fellowship in Hematology-Medical Oncology (1991) at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Washington, DC. From 1991 to 2004, he was at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research; Chief, Blood Research for the last 3 of those years. His primary research interests were storage of blood products, blood substitutes, and coagulation disorders. From 2004 to 2008 he was Chief of Hematology-Medical Oncology at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center. He also served as Chair of the Cancer Care Committee, Co-Chair of the Institutional Review Board and Principal Investigator for CALGB (a cooperative group for cancer clinical trials). After 27 years in the Army Medical Corps, he retired in 2008 as a full Colonel. From 2008 to 2011 he was in private practice.